#read

I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#already #basically #case #child #child abuse

I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that. ↗

— Karen Morley

#bread #daily #daily bread #did #i

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me. ↗

— Alice Munro

#best #everything #feel #fictions #happens

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them. ↗

— Herman Melville

#better #delight #give #mankind #persons

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#books #facets #knowledge #learning #men

Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it. ↗

— Antonio de Mendoza

#liberty #means #men #most #responsibility

'Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read 'First Among Equals.' ↗

— Louise Mensch

#best #equals #fiction #first #i

We are ready to say that we rule the entire Elgin enterprise as irrelevant to the present. ↗

— Melina Mercouri

#enterprise #entire #irrelevant #present #ready

I think as a young actress, it's very rare that you read something where you're not either 'the girl' or there to serve some romantic purpose in a male dominated cast. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#cast #dominated #either #girl #i

There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#cast #cell #chatting #crew #day